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Family Research - Classes - Workshops - Consultation

Introduction to Genealogy—Becoming a Genealogy Detective!

Anyone near Wilbraham, MA tonight is welcome to stop at the Wilbraham Public Library tonight.  It’s the 3rd in a 4 part series “Introduction to Genealogy”.  Each week there have been more and more participants so feel free to call the library at 413-596-6141 to make sure there’ll be room!  Based on the popularity, I…
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Introduction to Genealogy Sessions will continue at First Church in Ludlow

The fundraiser for the First Church in Ludlow that just completed was a very successful program. I believe that all the participants learned at least something and most picked up a lot of information regarding doing their own family research.  In some cases, the participants have asked me to help them along, which is, of…
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Great Class

We had a great time last night.  Week 3 covered a lot of ground including becoming a detective while reading census records, soundex calculations and some free family tree software called “Family Tree Builder”.  We started out with a slide of one of those “jokes” where all the letters of every word are jumbled other…
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Week Three is Ready!

This week has flown by…maybe because I’m getting old!  But I realized that today is Saturday and Monday will be here any second.  So instead of floating comfortably in the pool with Karen and guests, I buckled down and got it done. Monday night we’ll review the last 2 weeks and get into new business. …
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